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Music > Albums > John Denver - Autograph (2004) Retail CD
added on April 20, 2007, at 14:48 by allcdcovers

Milton Okun was John’s producer and mentor for many years. They worked together on all his albums up to and including this one, released in 1980. Although this was not the last time they worked together, things were never the same again. Following this album, John experimented with different producers. Some of these produced great albums, but in a slightly different style. So this album, Autograph, was the last of its kind.The style of this album is typical of John – rooted in folk but with elements of pop and country, with a bluegrass influence on one or two tracks. Classifying John’s music was never easy but that’s how he liked it. The quality is all that matters, and you get plenty of that here, especially with addition of two bonus tracks. They were recorded for possible inclusion in the original album and were certainly good enough.John often sang about nature and the environment, and this album is packed with such songs. Normally, these songs are set in the Rockies, but many of the songs on this album are set in Alaska (Wrangell mountain song, American child, Whalebones and crosses). The Rockies are not completely overlooked – they are the setting for The mountain song. Even the love songs generally relate in some way to the environment, as in How mountain girls can love.John did not record a lot of covers, but he always chose wisely when he did record them. Here you can here his outstanding version of Rodney Crowell’s Song for the life.This was not one of John’s most commercially successful albums, but it was only because he was out of fashion at the time. If this album had appeared a few years earlier it would have generated the sales it deserved. It is a classic.

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